Dropbox is out!
 

http://blog.getdropbox.com/?p=13

But it is getting crushed by the digg effect.

I have been a beta user for a while & I am very happy with it. I use it at work/home & with all my family members.

Now that they have a linux client & an "Ipod interface" (whatever that is) I wonder if this is something we could use?

Thoughts?

Re: Dropbox is out!
 

Looks just like Windows Office Live Workspace.

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Its totally unclear what you are talking about so I did some searching.

Here is a (recent) Google cache of the default home page of getdropbox.com.

Apparently it is a framework to easily sync, share, and backup data.

Does it work on the NIT?

EDIT: No, there isn't, but the source is there and there are packages for Ubuntu as well. Question is, can it cleanly cross-compile to ARM, and can the dependancies be fullfilled.

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Dependencies (from their website):

• GTK 2.12 or higher
• GLib 2.14 or higher
• Nautilus 2.16 or higher
• Libnotify 0.4.4 or higher
• Wget 1.10 or higher

Nautilus is the only one likely to be an issue, though I haven't checked versions.

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I doubt it would work on the tablet, though it would be very cool if it did. It's still an awesome service though. It's just what I've been looking for. I look forward to never losing a file ever again.

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one can always access the files via the webpage...

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That is how I've been using it on my n810 so far. I have read a few things over on the beta testers forum about a python cli but I don't know how this works in with the linux version as I have only been using the mac & windows clients.

As soon as some of the digg traffic dies down, I'll see if I can find out anything as well as reaching out to the dropbox team about perhaps an NIT optimized "view".

The file versioning alone has saved my bacon at work. I would love to be able to sync across all my platforms!

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Guys, this thing is integrating in the different OSes file managers and automatically syncs your files from the server... So, it won't be easy to port - relies heavily on Nautilus. Also we don't have Gtk 2.12 and GLib 2.14 (probably they use the new regular expression functions too).

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This might be interesting to see ported to Deblet.. :rolleyes:

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Yeah, Deblet sounds as a more likely target. :)

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Here is the Python CLI thread...I don't know if anyone not using Dropbpx will be able to access the forums though:
http://forums.getdropbox.com/topic.p...543&replies=25

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Bad news - Dropbox won't even run on Deblet - it depends on a closed source daemon (dropboxd) that only exists for x86 + x86/64, not armel. :(

I've posted on their forum:

http://forums.getdropbox.com/topic.p...s=2#post-17433

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I use Box.net on my n810. Works fine, and is fast, especially the mobile version.
Basic membership is free, and gives up to 2GB of storage I believe.

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why am i not surprised. i was suspecting that there had to be some kind of service/daemon running as otherwise it would stop working the moment the user closed down the file manager...